Panel urged denial of Israel funds because of serious human rights violations but state department has not yet acted, report saysThe US state department has failed to act on internal reports of human rights abuses by Israeli army and police units, according to a new report, raising new questions over whether Washington’s continued supply of arms to Israel is breaking US law.The ProPublica investigative journalism site quoted officials as saying that a special panel set up by the Biden...
38-year-old Brian Warner, indicted on 51 counts of child abuse, posted $100,000 bail on Tuesday, following a Berkshire Superior Court arraignment.
The lawsuit said investigators and supervisors were not licensed social workers and didn’t have the professional basis to assess the children’s home life.
McDONALD COUNTY, Mo. — A Pineville man is in custody, charged in connection to a 2020 child sexual abuse case. Zachary Ambrose, 23, is being held in the McDonald County Jail without bond on one count of statutory sodomy. According to court documents, Ambrose told deputies that back in 2020 he entered a residence intoxicated []
A judge signed off on Stanley Burkhardt, who was investigated for a series of Louisiana killings, to transfer to a halfway houseA former child sex crimes detective who admitted to molesting children during his New Orleans policing career, has been in and out of prison for images depicting the sexual abuse of minors, and has been investigated in connection with a series of killings, has gotten another opportunity at relative freedom.After a parole violation caused him to spend the last few years...
A record high 181 cases of violation of the Animal Welfare Act were reported in Japan in 2023, the National Police Agency said in a report released this week. The figure was 15 more than 2022 and 3.5 times as many as in 2014. Most of the animals that suffered
Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, is reportedly expected to plead guilty to fraud after allegedly stealing money from the MLB star to pay off gambling debts. Ohtani has said he had no knowledge of Mizuhara's supposed gambling addiction nor that he had $4.5 million stolen. Authorities believe they have evidence that Mizuhara actually shut off notifications on Ohtani's bank account in which he would not know money was being taken out, the New York Times reported. CLICK HERE FOR...
A former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school has been charged with felony child neglect more than a year after a 6-year-old boy brought a gun to class and shot a teacher.
The Child Protection Unit created in 1987 aims to protect children by preventing abuse and neglect through awareness and education, and prosecuting crimes to hold offenders accountable.
More children and families extorted with AI-made photos and videos, says National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Child sexual exploitation is on the rise online and taking new forms such as images and videos generated by artificial intelligence, according to an annual assessment released on Tuesday by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), a US-based clearinghouse for the reporting of child sexual abuse material.Reports to the NCMEC of child abuse online rose by...
AI-generated images and clips are affecting the rise of child sexual exploitation cases online, NCMEC says in the latest assessment report.
This summer will mark 10 years since the publication of a damning report which blew the lid off a child sexual exploitation (CSE) scandal in Rotherham. Sign up for newsletters from The Star The report revealed that around 1,400 Rotherham children were sexually exploited between 1997 and 2013. The author, Professor Alexis Jay, said the “true scale” of the exploitation and abuse was unknown but the 1,400 figure was a “conservative estimate”. Prof Jay said it was “hard to describe the appalling...